American School, mid-19th century oil on canvas portrait of Bennett Henderson Hornsby of Kentucky (and later, Nova Scotia). The subject is depicted in middle age with a moustache, wearing a black suit and tie and seated in a red upholstered chair against an indistinct background. Unsigned. Original giltwood molded frame. Sight: 29 in H x 24 in […]
Lot 518: 5 Framed Confederate Bond Sheets Plus Related Document
Five (5) framed Confederate Civil War bonds, plus original owner’s letter. 1st-3rd Items: Three (3) Confederate $1,000 bonds, C.S.A. Act of August 19th, 1861 (Criswell 82), on white paper; with Equestrian statue of Washington on the capitol grounds in Richmond at center. Issued June 10, 1862. Nos. 1013, 1015, and 1017, each with 11 coupons remaining and signed by […]
Lot 517: Slave Record and Land Grant, Osmond Jones Family of Alabama
1st item: 1 letter from Osmond Jones (1809-1865) to his niece, Mary Tabb, daughter of his sister, Mary Jones Tabb (1811-1898). The letter, dated May 29, 1863, contains Civil War related subject matter. Osmond Tabb does not appear to have fought in the war himself but rather continued working his farm. 2nd item: a pocket sized leather-bound […]
Lot 516: TN Confederate Civil War Avalanche Extra Broadside
Confederate Civil War Avalanche Extra (Memphis, TN) broadside clipping dated Wednseday (sic), April 24, –1 o’clock — titled MORE AMMUNITION FOR MEMPHIS!, The Troops at Cairo!, Steamer Baltic Fired into!, and SURRENDER OF FORT SMITH TO ARKANSAS!, with text below describing the titled events and other events in Washington, DC, Baltimore, Virginia, Indiana, Nebraska, Ohio, and […]
Lot 515: 6 TN Confederate Civil War Related Letters Incl. POW
Group of six (6) Civil War-era letters written by or addressed to Confederate Private James Polk Blakemore (called Polk), 18th Regiment, Tennessee Infantry. Includes four written by Polk as Prisoner of War at Camp Butler, Illinois, plus Nashville and Middle Tennessee content. Letters discuss details of POW life (“…it is the same thing over and over every day get […]
Lot 514: Armstrong-Hornsby Family Photos + Letter Archive, KY Interest
Archive with Kentucky and Civil War interest. 1st grouping: collection of 25 CDVs and 3 tintypes from an album related to the family of Confederate Navy 1st Lt. Richard Fielder Armstrong (1842-1904), his wife Arabella Lewis Hornsby, and their son, Bennett Hornsby Armstrong, dating circa 1866-1886. The album is falling apart but the CDVs are in […]
Lot 513: CSA Gen. William Loring and JD Bulloch Photos, Letters, CSS Alabama related
Archive of 3 letters and 3 autographed Cabinet Card photographs of Confederate General William Wing Loring, AKA Loring Pasha, and of Cmdr. James D. Bulloch, Confederate spy and chief Naval Representative to England, from the collection of CSN 1st Lt. Richard Fielder Armstrong of the CSS Alabama, plus 2 Confederate post-war pieces of souvenir “currency.” 1st grouping: The […]
Lot 512: CSA Navy Appointment, Semmes and Mallory plus Photo of Lt. Armstrong
1861 Confederate States Navy Department appointment signed by CSA Navy Secretary Stephen Mallory and Commander and future Admiral Raphael Semmes, to midshipman and future First Lieutenant Richard Fielder Armstrong. In this partly printed letter on lined paper, dated Montgomery, Alabama, April 17th 1861, Mallory directs Armstrong to proceed to New Orleans and report to Commander Raphael Semmes […]
Lot 511: 3 Documents and CDV of A.T. Moore of Alabama, CSA
CDV and 3 ephemera items related to Civil War CSA soldier Adam Tooley Moore (B. North Carolina, 1825- d. Marion, Alabama, 1888, served 28th Alabama Infantry CSA). Includes Special Order dated Jan. 7, 1865, signed by R.W. Mayrant, dated Headquarters Lee’s Camp, stating “A T Moore, clerk, will proceed without delay to Columbus Ms in obedience to the […]
Lot 510: Gen. Alex P. Stewart ALS Civil War Letter to Capt. Wm. Tabb’s Sister
Confederate General Alexander P. Stewart (1821-1908) ALS to the sister of Captain William Henry Tabb, dated July 2, 1862, in response to her letter begging him to intervene for his release from Johnson’s Island Prison. Tabb and many soldiers in his regiment, the 14th Mississippi Infantry, were captured at the Battle of Fort Donelson. Stewart had […]
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